Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Independent/Democratic candidate for President Bernie Sanders has been running on a platform of not just tax the rich, but pretty much tax everyone more to pay for his $18 trillion program of full blown Socialism. But what the old man from Vermont who never worked an honest job in his entire life is failing to see is that as Americans rush towards tax day less than a week from now, they already give away to government agencies more in taxes than they spend each year on food, clothing, and shelter…

Combined.

This year, Tax Freedom Day falls on April 24, or 114 days into the year (excluding Leap Day).

Americans will pay $3.3 trillion in federal taxes and $1.6 trillion in state and local taxes, for a total bill of almost $5.0 trillion, or 31 percent of the nation’s income.

Americans will collectively spend more on taxes in 2016 than they will on food, clothing, and housing combined.

That last statistic is a huge sore point with me.

How can anyone argue that we are not a socialist society when the government takes more of our money than we spend on food, clothing and housing combined?